Smart buildings, smart grids and green data centres offer considerable opportunities for IT outsourcing.

The promising outsourcing market for smart buildings

According to Pike Research, worldwide spending on outsourcing services will quadruple over the next 8 years, growing from $291 million in 2012 to $1.1 billion by 2020.

The deployment of automated energy management systems and their ability to analyse huge volumes of energy-related data, combined with the shortage of maintenance staff are leading managers of commercial buildings to farm out IT infrastructure, software systems and data analytics management services to outside service providers.

• ˝Software as a Service plus Energy Management/NOC Services and On-Site Installation & Maintenance Services for Commercial Buildings˝.  Read the report from Pike Research

 Smart grid data analytics: the first step towards a return on investment

The implementation of smart grid technologies, particularly in Asia Pacific where it is particularly widespread, is said to result in a ˝data deluge˝. In Europe, some 237 million smart meters will be in use by 2020.

Collecting and storing data and business intelligence are becoming increasingly important for utility providers and distributors: between 2012 and 2020, annual spending on smart grid data analytics should total $34 billion, predicts Pike Research.

• ˝Smart Grid Data Analytics, Smart Meter, Grid Operations, Asset Management, and Renewable Energy Integration Data Analytics˝.   Read the report from Pike Research

+ 28% annual investment for green data centres 

With spending estimated at $17.1 billion in 2012 and $45.4 billion in 2016 – an annual growth rate of 28%, the technologies used for the energy-efficient, new-generation data centres worldwide, and in particular virtualisation, are generating new opportunities for the entire data centre supply chain.

• ˝Green Data Centers, IT Equipment, Power and Cooling Infrastructure, and Monitoring and Management Tools ˝. Read the report from Pike Research